I woke up with this Diana Ross song in my head: Do you know where you’re going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know? It might be because I’m booking flights for an […]
Okay, that’s not true. Your mind is amazing–it’s nimble and sharp, tirelessly scanning for patterns. But it sucks at this, the present moment. It’s all about what happened and what’s going to happen, what we did or wish we had done (or wish we hadn’t […]
“It isn’t going to write itself.” We’ve forgotten that every one of us is here to make things. We’re here to make connections, families, new ideas, raspberry pies, jokes, schools, shops, gardens, shawls, paintings, stories, music, ceiling tiles, sounds of compassion and recognition as we […]
Regrets. I’ve had a few. But then again… These vestigial thoughts stick to me like emotional skin tags. I don’t even believe in them but still, I bristle when I find them where I want smooth skin, a clean slate. Where would I be now […]
At some point, you have to let it go–the thing, the person, the belief, the situation that is dragging you down. It’s too burdensome, the complaints too tired and well worn, you can recite them in your sleep–all the things you say about not having the […]